Ella Janes
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Ella Addison Janes (born April 25, 2006) is an American filmmaker. Her films are best known for her off-beat characters, disruptive timelines, and her preference for narration. Janes is a YoungArts Finalist in Film for 2021 and has been celebrated at student festivals around the world.
Janes gained acclaim for her early work on Code Red (2020) which she sought to spread knowledge on high rates of Incarceration in Oklahoma. Shortly after Janes creates her production company, ur girlfriend's favorite films, which she still runs to this day. After the lock-down of the global pandemic, Janes directed, wrote, and shot The First 280 Honest Words of My Life (2022), which earned her the Rising Star Award at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth and Best Experimental Film at The All American High School Film Festival.
Janes then sought to make a global difference again through film with her short A Woman and an Envelope (2023) about a young woman who is the victim of a high-profile sexual assault case. Janes' following film, Mr. Baxter (2023) was made in partnership with the Manhattan Film Institute. During this time Janes began her work with Julian Felix Aaronson and his production company, Nitwit Entertainment, as cinematographer on Where is Bones (2023) and producer on The External-Internal Monologue of an Interdependent Insomniac (2023). Her next films The Derivative Outlook on Love from the Perspectives of Two Sixteen-Year-Olds (2023), Happiness in the Palm of Her Hand (2023), and Cut Scenes From a Love Story (2023) are set to premiere at festivals in the new year.
Janes gained acclaim for her early work on Code Red (2020) which she sought to spread knowledge on high rates of Incarceration in Oklahoma. Shortly after Janes creates her production company, ur girlfriend's favorite films, which she still runs to this day. After the lock-down of the global pandemic, Janes directed, wrote, and shot The First 280 Honest Words of My Life (2022), which earned her the Rising Star Award at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth and Best Experimental Film at The All American High School Film Festival.
Janes then sought to make a global difference again through film with her short A Woman and an Envelope (2023) about a young woman who is the victim of a high-profile sexual assault case. Janes' following film, Mr. Baxter (2023) was made in partnership with the Manhattan Film Institute. During this time Janes began her work with Julian Felix Aaronson and his production company, Nitwit Entertainment, as cinematographer on Where is Bones (2023) and producer on The External-Internal Monologue of an Interdependent Insomniac (2023). Her next films The Derivative Outlook on Love from the Perspectives of Two Sixteen-Year-Olds (2023), Happiness in the Palm of Her Hand (2023), and Cut Scenes From a Love Story (2023) are set to premiere at festivals in the new year.
